Nominal Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Just now, 440bbm said: hope the car u gunna make her push, isnt too heavy Only a Morrie, don't mention the hills 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 2 hours ago, Nominal said: Thanks, talked to Auto Instrument Services who our mechanic suggested. I need to count the speedo cable turns while pushing the car 50 meters, wif is going to love helping with that, Is that the new plymouth jokers? They are down the street from work. We have had mostly good results from them at work. Have used Robinson instruments with success also. Seem like knowledgeable barries with poor website skillz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 8 minutes ago, fletch said: Is that the new plymouth jokers? They are down the street from work. We have had mostly good results from them at work. Have used Robinson instruments with success also. Seem like knowledgeable barries with poor website skillz Yeah, NP I think. I don't really need barry level, just an adjustment on the speedo indication Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 14 hours ago, Nominal said: Thanks, talked to Auto Instrument Services who our mechanic suggested. I need to count the speedo cable turns while pushing the car 50 meters, wif is going to love helping with that, Place in christchurch had a machine that would count the turns while the the vehicle was driven a mile/km. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 When rucs come in for all, Fitting a KPH faceplate to an MPH speedo (where both options existed for the same dial) would be stealing from the government, and the thought has never once not crossed my mind........ 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregT Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 1 hour ago, RUNAMUCK said: Place in christchurch had a machine that would count the turns while the the vehicle was driven a mile/km. Parrotts. They had an in-ground roller setup which I think was usable powered or car driven. Don't know if they moved it when they shifted premises. As the business changed hands at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 I know a guy who worked there in the last 5 years. He reckoned the place was a bit of a shambles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 7 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said: Place in christchurch had a machine that would count the turns while the the vehicle was driven a mile/km. Marked out 50m on the road and counted 44 turns of the cable which works out to 1416 turns per mile, speedo is marked as 1376 tpm so pretty close, it should read about 3% fast, probably due to radial vs crossply. Actually reads about 45% fast so will send it off for a lookey-loo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Does it have a miles to km converter installed backwards 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregT Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 1 hour ago, RUNAMUCK said: I know a guy who worked there in the last 5 years. He reckoned the place was a bit of a shambles. It always was. They did good work though. Very good on Smiths gauges, esp chronometric tachos and speedos. At some point they carried a form of small gearbox which could be spliced into speedo drive cables to correct any differences. Had one put in the LD converted Bedford which was an annoyance as up till then it had under recorded mileage which was great for RUC. Wif insisted after she got pulled for speeding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 16 minutes ago, tortron said: Does it have a miles to km converter installed backwards Can't do as the tpm from the cable is about right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VitesseEFI Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Doesn’t mean the face (with the Tpm marking) left the factory with the same mech it has now….. Vitesse has a misleading number on the face (which is original) as the workings are from a Dolly 1850 to match the previous gearbox and diff. As it turns out, the speedo gearing was absolutely identical on the Toyota W58 - which was unusually serendipitous! The gods clearly remembered though as the MX5 box speedo gearing is VERY different from GT6 (reads 40% low), so I really ought to do something about that…. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 4 hours ago, VitesseEFI said: Doesn’t mean the face (with the Tpm marking) left the factory with the same mech it has now….. Vitesse has a misleading number on the face (which is original) as the workings are from a Dolly 1850 to match the previous gearbox and diff. As it turns out, the speedo gearing was absolutely identical on the Toyota W58 - which was unusually serendipitous! The gods clearly remembered though as the MX5 box speedo gearing is VERY different from GT6 (reads 40% low), so I really ought to do something about that…. It's possible I suppose that it was modded when NZ changed from mph to kph limits on the road in the 76/77 or so. In the old Holden there were a couple of stickers on the speedo to mark the main limits, but those have worn off now. We are only the second owners of the Morrie and it's pretty original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Related sharn, my mum had a Morrie when I was a kid, I remember the speedo needle was all over the place , including off the end of the speedo often down one particular hill, and even as a kid I remember thinking 'that's a lot of rpm mum' 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 I was once a passenger in a Humber 80 with the speedo needle past the fuel gauge. Anybody's guess how (in)accurate it was but it felt stupidly fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 19 hours ago, GregT said: Had one put in the LD converted Bedford Wif insisted after she got pulled for speeding. Unlikely. Ld anything will never get a speeding ticket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregT Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 50 minutes ago, JustHarry said: Unlikely. Ld anything will never get a speeding ticket Ok, next time my wife is trying to give me a bollocking, I'll mention your name as a volunteer target for her abuse In the meantime look at the thread on LD powered Bedford. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datlow Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Never late in a ld28 maaaayte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 28 minutes ago, GregT said: Ok, next time my wife is trying to give me a bollocking, I'll mention your name as a volunteer target for her abuse In the meantime look at the thread on LD powered Bedford. Maybe its fast compared to a horse and cart 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Just now, datlow said: late in a ld28 maaaayte 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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